| BUCHAN | John ___, author of 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| HAY | Ian ___, author of 1915 war book The First Hundred Thousand (3) |
| JOHNBUCHAN | Author of 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (4,6) |
| HANNAY | Protagonist and narrator of John Buchan's 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| RECTOR | John ___, author of the novels Out of the Black and Already Gone (6) |
| FOWLES | John ___, author of the 1977 novel Daniel Martin (6) |
| BRAINE | John ___, author of 1957 novel Room at the Top (6) |
| UPDIKE | John _, author of the 1960 novel Rabbit, Run (6) |
| BUNYAN | John ___, author of The Pilgrim's Progress (6) |
| MCPHEE | John ___, author of "Annals of the Former World" |
| DRYDEN | John ___, writer appointed England's first official poet laureate, in 1668 (6) |
| BULLIVANT | Sir Walter --, character in John Buchan's novel 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' (9) |
| CASE | John ___, author of the novels The First Horseman and The Genesis Code; pseudonym of Jim and Carolyn |
| WEBSTER | John ___, author of stage plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
| LECARRE | John ___, author of the novels Call for the Dead and The Mission Song (2,5) |
| FORD | Ford Madox _, author of the 1915 novel The Good Soldier (4) |
| GALSWORTHY | John ___, author of novel series The Forsyte Saga (10) |
| BARTH | John ___, author of the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy (5) |
| LAHR | John ___, author of the novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot (4) |
| STEINBECK | John ___, author of The Grapes of Wrath (9) |
